PH3 Meeting, 2024/04/30
Language universals as Gates to Language (GaLa):
Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP). Figure from Santolin et al., (2024).
Experimental series involving:
Do infant encode-generalize internal structure of syllables?
Head-turn Preference Procedure
Familiarization phase
| CVC | CCV |
|---|---|
| sam | sma |
| gel | gle |
| pus | psu |
| dor | dro |
| sen | sne |
Test phase
| CVC | CCV |
|---|---|
| sap | spa |
| kos | kso |
Are CCV syllables more difficult to process than CVC syllables?
Simulate experimental outputs using Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)
Supervised audio classification task
Magnuson et al. (2020)
CV, \(\approx 0\), more likely VCCV, \(\approx 0\), more likely VCADAM (\(\epsilon = 0.001\))(Still tweaking things around.)
Is the model better at classifying CVCs than CCVs? (Santolin et al. 2024)